i mean, he, i know, stood alongside mitt romney. but it's interesting the way he's handling this at this point. is he the modern republican? >> he may be, tamron, but i think the other republican to be seeing a lot of in the coming days, weeks, months ahead is marco rubio who's a cuban american senator of mr. florida they're looking to him as a republican to reach across the divide for them, tamron. so we'll be hearing a lot from him in the coming days. >> he's not shown the ability to have a nonpartisan spirit that chris christie seems to be -- i think he's trying to own it, to be quite honest with you. >> i think you're absolutely right but look. one thing, tamron, i think is really important, republicans may want to blame chris christie for the praise of president obama in the closing days and superstorm sandy but that is not it. this was a thumping and we know that from the senate races. democrats won senate races in north dakota and montana. >> this is not -- chris christie did not say let detroit go bankrupt and that was the d